🌏 It's Earth Day — Combat Climate Change Through Gardening!

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Combat Climate Change by Making Your Own Compost

Our in-house gardening experts bring you this series of tips and actions you can take in your own garden, whatever its size, to help combat climate change.

Besides growing plants to draw carbon out of the atmosphere, you can stop carbon dioxide from getting there in the first place by making something your plants will love: (you guessed it) compost. Otherwise known as decomposing organic matter, compost can be added to your soil to help your plants grow.

Image of woman pulling finished compost from the bottom of a cedar composter.

Compost keeps your kitchen and garden waste out of landfills which produce not only carbon dioxide but also methane — a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide. Plus, compost increases the biological activity, fertility and water-holding capacity of your garden. (Are you convinced yet?)

“People sometimes get worried that if they compost, it will stink!” says Cynthia Faith, a certified horticulturalist at our Hadley, MA garden center. “But if you get the balance right, it shouldn’t have any odor and you shouldn’t attract any animals. It’s just initially starting to compost at home that takes a little bit of time, but it’s amazing how quickly food scraps get broken down and you can use them in your garden.”

Need some help getting started? Begin with our comprehensive guide:

Trees are the most efficient of plants when it comes to draining carbon dioxide from the air, with long-lived shrubs coming in second in their ability to sequester carbon. Long-lived woody perennials, like peonies, and ornamental grasses like pheasant’s tail (with extensive root systems) are also good options. But you can think of every plant— no matter the size — as a tiny carbon sink.

Read more on how to combat climate change in your garden here:

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